The Story of American Aviation
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The Story of American Aviation includes the myth of Icarus, who failed to heed his father's warning. Pegasus, the winged horse, appears in an ancient myth of flying. In the year 1250 an Englishman, Roger Bacon, had the idea that a large hollow globe of thin metal could be made which, filled with an ethereal air or liquid fire, would float on the air like a ship on water. Leonardo da Vinci, the great Italian artist and scientist, spent years experimenting with the idea of flying.
In 1678, Besnier, a French locksmith, constructed a curious flying machine consisting of two wooden bars which rested on his shoulders. In 1926, the sixteen companies holding air mail contracts flew about 1,700,000 air miles. Mail was the principal source of revenue, and pilots and Operation men alike frankly admitted they were not keen about carrying passengers.
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- Author
- Jim Ray
- Pages
- 287
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
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